{"id":1829,"date":"2020-03-25T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2020-03-25T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:19:23","slug":"sabarimala-temple-festival-cancelled-in-view-of-nationwide-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Sabarimala Temple festival cancelled: 21-day lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has also decided to cancel all festivals in other temples of Kerala that comes under the Board, <a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/sabarimala-temple-festival-cancelled-in-view-of-nationwide-lockdown20200325061115\/\">ANI News <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Thiruvananthapuram<\/strong>: Sabarimala Temple festival scheduled to begin on March 29 has been cancelled,  In view of the countrywide lockdown to curb the spread of deadly contagion COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/sabarimala-temple-festival-cancelled-in-view-of-nationwide-lockdown20200325061115\/\">Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) <\/a>has also decided to cancel all festivals in other temples of Kerala that comes under the Board.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In his address to the nation on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown in the entire country effective from midnight to deal with the spread of coronavirus, saying that &#8220;social distancing&#8221; is the only option to deal with the disease, which spreads rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to the Indian Council of Medical Research <a href=\"https:\/\/aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/sabarimala-temple-festival-cancelled-in-view-of-nationwide-lockdown20200325061115\/\">(ICMR<\/a>), India has reported about 536 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19. Eleven people have died so far due to the deadly virus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: thehindu.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has also decided to cancel all festivals in other temples of Kerala that comes under the Board, ANI News reports. Thiruvananthapuram: Sabarimala Temple festival scheduled to begin on March 29 has been cancelled, In view of the countrywide lockdown to curb the spread of deadly contagion COVID-19. Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[129,467,214,468,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}